The "thin red thread" that held the neck

Beau 2021-10-22 14:34:51

"I heard that the spirit can be immortal, but I haven't seen it."

I am used to watching war films full of fearless spirit. All the charges are so indomitable, and the faces of those charges seem to see the same. With an expression, as if victory is about to be in sight, the banner of victory must be planted on the attacked position.

And that kind of heart-wrenching feeling can always follow the rhythm when watching horror movies, shouting happiness at the climax of every music and movie, because I tremble. This was the first time that I was panicked while watching a war-themed movie. I trembled with the soldiers, and everyone was praying. I walked through the virgin forest and those tall grasses with my scattered eyes and panicked expressions. It seemed that I had reached the limit and I could not bear the flash. In the slow motion back, I couldn't bear the fear all over those young faces, and

threw the country far away, and hung the living body on the cross where the blood of Jesus still remained. What did you see? Don't say you haven't felt it yet, do you really despise life so much?

"Who is slaughtering sentient beings, depriving us of the fire of life. Laughing at our dependence on the world, is war good for the earth."

Using a movie to complete a director's philosophical thinking on war, this seems to be the supremacy of consumerism and entertainment today It was very untimely, so the price he paid was great. Although he won the best feature film "Golden Bear" at the Berlin Film Festival, he was completely wiped out in the local seven Oscar nominations. However, that does not affect our attitude towards the red line. A maverick director such as Terrence Malick uses a rational vision to inject humanitarian thinking into any place where he can exist and be involved. People can't get the satisfaction of viewing through the ending of "justice" over "evil", the traditional victory and defeat have been subverted, what do you see in "Saving Private Ryan" and "Brave Heart", and those same themes Of war movies? I am afraid that I can only see the legalization of the war framed by art if I watch it a hundred times and a thousand times!

I have never encountered a movie like this. I followed the soldiers whose heads were filled with doubts and fears and asked, "Why am I here? Who am I? Where am I going?" It is really a thin stick. The red line strangled the neck of the Hollywood model. The natural scenery of those tropical rainforests, the birds that were startled out of the grass at that time, and the clear river water that was red with blood. These soldiers scattered in the tropical rainforest are like a tree or a creeping tree. Animals, they have lost any superiority. And every time I can't bear the panic and depression in the slow progress of the camera, I don't feel that I am a little farther away from the screen, as if I am also farther away from them, I need some distance, farther away from death. The only thing I can do is to complain about the war on behalf of the soldiers who have no right to choose, and complain about its inhumanity.

I can't use any more words to describe it, because my heartbeat has slowed down, I may cry at any time, I can't bear to think about the meaning of existence, and there is still afternoon sun on me. There is also a small bug, it is also basking in the sun, too lazy to crawl around the flowerpot.

And what can you do? Just go and watch "Thin Red Line" again, and look at the masterpiece of Terrence Malik, an alien among Americans, while we are not too old, and there is some passion to be cynical, while we are not too numb. , Can still think about what we are doing in a certain period of time, while there is still a place for us to speak freely, before we can hurt each other instead of being indifferent to each other.

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Extended Reading
  • Marcelina 2022-03-24 09:01:26

    Does anyone really think this Reader's Digest nonsense is profound? For 170 minutes, the director was talking like a high school student who just learned to write lyrical prose.

  • Madonna 2022-04-24 07:01:03

    Everything is a lie, only the war is real.

The Thin Red Line quotes

  • Private Ash: I'm outta this war for good, Witt.

  • Private Ash: I would have had you Witt if you were a Jap, long ago.

    Private Witt: They leave you here?

    Private Ash: Yeah, I was holding them up.

    Private Witt: You got one good huh?

    Private Ash: Right in the knee. Yeah, I'm out of this war for good Witt. The Doc fixed me up pretty good, plenty of ammo. What are you doing up here?

    Private Witt: I took a walk away from the village. You can come with me if you want, I can help you along.

    Private Ash: No, its peaceful up here you know? I'll only slow you up. Someone will be along. You give the boys my best, huh?

    Private Witt: I will.

    Private Ash: Ok.